Program Day One Friday, March 6th 2026 Day Two Saturday, March 7th 2026 07:30 am Registration & Breakfast 08:30 am Inaugural Programme Session I - Aplastic Anemia Chair Person : Dr. Mammen Chandy and Dr. Srikanth Muralikrishnan 09:00 am What is new in the Immune Pathogenesis of Aplastic Anemia Dr. Shreyans Ashok Gandhi King's College Hospital NHS Trust, London 09:30 am IBMDX study – Prevalence of IBMFS in Australia Dr. Lucy Fox Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne 10:00 am The Stem Cell niche in Aplastic Anemia Prof. Soniya Nityanand King George's Medical University, UP, Lucknow 10:30 am Coffee break Session II - Lab Session I - Biology, Gene editing and diagnosis Chair Person : Dr. Deepak Kumar Mishra and Dr. Poonkuzhali B 11:00 am Global DNA Methylation signature patterns in Fanconi Anemia: Can they predict cancer development? Dr. Babu Rao ICMR-National Institute of Immunohaematology, Mumbai 11:25 am Whole genomic transcriptomic sequencing [WGTS] Dr. Lucy Fox Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne 11:50 am High resolution Genomic Landscape of Aplastic Anemia: Insights into mechanisms of immune escape Prof. Marcin Wlodarski St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA. 12:15 pm Are we ready for WGS in the routine Genetic workup of rare diseases? Dr. Vinod Scaria CDFD, New Delhi 12:40 pm Lunch and poster session Session III - Aplastic Anemia in children Chair Person : Dr. Sudha Sethy and Dr. Ramaswamy 02:00 pm Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia: Molecular diagnosis and diagnostic approach in India Dr. Prabhakar Kedar ICMR-National Institute of Immunohaematology, Mumbai 02:25 pm Haplo-Identical transplants for Fanconi Anemia Dr. Rajni Agarwal Stanford University, Stanford 02:50 pm Lentiviral Gene therapy Dr. Shaji R Velayudhan Christian Medical College, Vellore, India 03:15 pm Challenges with managing Aplastic Anemia in children in India Dr. Aruna Rajendran Madras Medical College, Chennai 03:40 pm Tea Break 04:00 pm Alternate donor transplants in Aplastic Anemia (Virtual) Dr. Carlo Dufour Gaslini Hospital, Genoa 04:25 pm Stem cell transplantation in children with Aplastic Anemia Dr. Revathy Raj Apollo Hospital, Chennai 04:50 pm Monitoring patients following SCT in cancer predisposition syndromes (Virtual) Dr. Neelam Giri National Cancer Institute, Rockville, USA. Session IV – Aplastic Anemia in India Chair Person : Dr. Radhika K 05:20 pm How can we improve access to standard therapy for AA in India Dr. Prantar Chakrabarti Sugah Healthcorp, Chennai 05:45 pm Panel discussion on managing AA in India Session V – Long term complications Chair Person : Dr. Biju George and Dr. Neeraj Sidharthan 06:25 pm Role of TPO agonists in Aplastic Anemia (Virtual) Dr. Phillip Scheinberg Hospital A Beneficência Portuguesa, São Paulo, Brazil 06:55 pm Pathophysiology and long term complications of PNH (Virtual) Dr. Austin Kulasekararaj King's College Hospital, London, UK. 07:30 pm Dinner 07:00 am Registration + Breakfast Session VI - Myelodysplastic Syndromes/PNH Chair Person : Dr. Sharon Lionel and Dr. Aruna Rajendran 08:00 am MDS – Is morphology still useful in diagnosis Dr. Debdatta Basu Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry 08:25 am Paediatric MDS: Role of Germline Predisposition Prof. Marcin Wlodarski St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA. 08:55 am Low risk MDS – How do we manage it Dr. Shreyans Ashok Gandhi King's College Hospital NHS Trust, London 09:25 am Managing high risk MDS in India Dr. Chepsy Philip Believer’s Hospital, Thiruvalla 09:55 am Can we improve on transplant outcomes in MDS Dr. Uday Kulkarni Christian Medical College, Vellore 10:20 am Coffee Break Session VII - Aplastic anemia - Indian perspective Chair Person : Dr. Chandrakala S and Dr. Uday Kulkarni 10:50 am Identifying IBMFS in India Dr. Sreejesh Sreedharanunni PGIMER, Chandigarh 11:10 am Genotype-Phenotype Heterogeneity in Fanconi Anemia Dr. Jesina Samuel Christian Medical College, Vellore 11:30 am Managing older patients with Aplastic Anemia with ATG Dr. Nutan Joshi Christian Medical College, Vellore 11:50 am Utility of oral drugs in the management of Aplastic Anemia Dr. Arihant Jain PGIMER, Chandigarh 12:10 pm Impact of pre-transplant infections on transplant outcomes in AA Dr. Sharon Lionel CMC Vellore 12:30 pm Update on the Aplastic Anemia Registry Dr. Biju George Christian Medical College, Vellore, India 12:50 pm Questions and Answers 01:05 pm Lunch Session VIII - Aplastic anemia - Session II Chair Person : Dr. Aby Abraham and Dr. Ajay Sharma 02:00 pm Antibody based conditioning for Fanconi Anemia Dr. Rajni Agarwal Stanford University, Stanford 02:30 pm Managing AA – The CMC Vellore Experience Dr. Biju George Christian Medical College, Vellore, India 03:00 pm Where do I see the management of AA going in 2030 – A Futuristic Outlook (Virtual) Dr. Phillip Scheinberg Hospital A Beneficência Portuguesa, São Paulo, Brazil 03:30 pm Closing ceremony followed by tea
